<![CDATA[Changing the default forecast provider]]>I live in Europe and for me ECMWF is not the best data provider for forecast I can get in Windy. I have always charged from default to another data provider, so I think it would be a good idea to implement a choice for user from default to favorite. When my favorite data provider doesn’t exist for a specific zone of the world then the app can switch automatically to default.

Thank you

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/36322/changing-the-default-forecast-providerRSS for NodeFri, 08 May 2026 08:09:32 GMTFri, 23 Aug 2024 06:23:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the default forecast provider on Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:41:20 GMT]]>Hi @enterfornone, understood. At the moment, there is unfortunately no way to set the default forecast model.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/198821https://community.windy.com/post/198821Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:41:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the default forecast provider on Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:30:14 GMT]]>@Filip_K I wish people would stop giving this inadequate suggestion every time a "default" model is requested.
This is not achieving the purpose!

The user above asked for the forecast. What purpose "last overlay" serves to give the forecast? None! What if you start the app from the widget? No bueno again.

Here's one of the previous threads, when same was requested, same "solution" was given and I explained why this "solution" is nothing like the requested.

https://community.windy.com/post/194436

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/198820https://community.windy.com/post/198820Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:30:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the default forecast provider on Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:28:58 GMT]]>Hi @Vio-Oprea and @AllanH, I believe that as premium users, You can set startup overlay to be the last used (in the settings):
Screenshot_20240828_152700.png

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/198767https://community.windy.com/post/198767Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:28:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the default forecast provider on Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:54:23 GMT]]>@Vio-Oprea said in Changing the default forecast provider:

I live in Europe and for me ECMWF is not the best data provider for forecast I can get in Windy. I have always charged from default to another data provider, so I think it would be a good idea to implement a choice for user from default to favorite. When my favorite data provider doesn’t exist for a specific zone of the world then the app can switch automatically to default.

Thank you

I would like to be able to choose my default model. The ECMWF is the least useful of all of them. It is less precise and has the longest update cycle. I always have to immediately click to HRRR or NAM to see what I want to see, and then repeat when I go back and forth from the sat. or radar. to a forecast map. Plus, being the American that I am, I don't trust the Europeans to predict my weather (only joking).

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